Rock 'n' Roll: The Nubes

Karen Levine, the daughter of a New
York radar engineer, goes to sleep at night with her transistor radio
pulsating reassuringly beneath her pillow. Her dream is always the
same: she becomes a dancer on TV's Hullabaloo and gaily frugs the night
away. Karen, who wears red mesh tights and white Courrèges-style boots
for real-life frugging, says that rock 'n' roll really gets through to
her, especially those tear-drenched ballads about unrequited love. "I
know what it's like to be blue," she sighs, "because that's how I feel
when my...